#compose

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. ↗

— Arthur Honegger

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I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist. ↗

— Jacques Ibert

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Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed. ↗

— Allen Johnson

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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ↗

— Walter Kerr

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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. ↗

— Charles Kettering

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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

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I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. ↗

— David Del Tredici

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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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